semantic analysis

noun

The process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.

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Meanings

nounsemantic analysis (plural semantic analyses)

plural semantic analyses

  1. human sciencesThe process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.
  2. computingThe phase in which a compiler adds semantic information to the parse tree and builds the symbol table.
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